Julie Andrews - ©Theda Bara

The name I present in this post is that of the iconic British singer, dancer, theater director, and writer Julie Andrews, famous for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1965 for her performance in the film “Mary Poppins” (1964), playing the protagonist “Mary Poppins”, a nanny with magical powers who seems to transform the sad routine of a traditional family.

In addition to the Academy Award for Best Actress, Julie Andrews won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture or Comedy (1965, 1966 and 1983); an Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety or Musical Program (1973), “The Julie Andrews Hour”; a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in (2019) and a Grammy Award in (2011).

The actress has a star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, located at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard, in the Motion Picture category.

Julie Andrews, born Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews on October 1, 1935, in Walton-on-Thames, United Kingdom, is now 89 years old.

Julie Andrews was married twice: first to Tony Walton (1934-2022), a British art director who won the 1980 Academy Award for Best Art Direction for “All That Jazz” (1979). The couple lived together for nine years, from 1959 to 1968. They had one daughter, the British-American children’s author Emma Katherine Walton Hamilton (1962-); her second marriage was to the American director, producer, and screenwriter Blake Edwards (1922-2010), from 1969 to 2010, which left her widowed. Julie Andrews had two adopted daughters: Amelia “Amy” Leigh Edwards (1974-) and Joanna Lynne Edwards (1975-), both born in Vietnam. Andrews raised Blake Edwards’s two children from his first marriage, American actress Jennifer Edwards (1957–) and film director and author Geoffrey Edwards (1959–), as her own.